These receipts are kept by the unions and upon inventories are surrendered to the Provincial Food Committees under receipt.

§ 13.

For the development of grain-storage operations* and the successful development of commodity exchange on the bases indicated above, cooperative associations of grain-producing regions, acting on the basis** and with the rights of agents of food organizations, are issued the necessary advances for grain procurement.***

§ 14.

All food organizations and Soviets of Deputies are placed under the obligation to monitor strictly and exactly the fulfillment of the present decree.

In case of violation of the indicated commodity-exchange rules by cooperative associations, their belonging goods are requisitioned, and the members of the Board are answerable before the court of the Revolutionary Tribunal. Members of the Collegium of food organs and Executive Committees of the Soviets of Deputies who do not carry the present decree into effect are brought to trial before the Revolutionary Tribunal.****

In the printed text the words: "development of grain-storage operations" are omitted. Ed.